4th - 6th Grade Make Connections Worksheets

Introduce students to Japanese American civil rights hero Fred Korematsu with this informational reading comprehension worksheet!

Your students will find cause and effect relationships as they read about the night the Titanic sank.

Children learn about the environmental activist and women's rights advocate Wangari Maathai. Students will read a biography about the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and answer nonfiction comprehension questions about the text.

Before reading Pam Muñoz Ryan’s novel Esperanza Rising, help students build background knowledge about the story's setting!

Use this Novel Discussion Guide for Parents as a guide to invite your child into a book discussion about their latest reading!

Katherine Johnson was an African American physicist and mathematician who worked to create the first calculations to send humans into space. Learn more about this inspiring woman with this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

In this biography worksheet, children read a passage about Booker T. Washington's life, then follow a series of thoughtful prompts to reflect on what they have learned.

Students will make meaningful connections between an adapted story from Aesop’s Fables and the world around them!

Kids will be fascinated by these stories of accidents that turned into huge successes!

Get your students excited about making text connections!

Learn more about molecules and how they comprise the air all around us in this intro-to-earth-science worksheet.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students read the final chapters of The Great Fire.

Students will practice making connections between a text and their real life experiences in this reading comprehension activity.

Martin Luther King Jr. is honored as one of the key leaders in the civil rights movement. Students will read his biography and find text evidence to support or refute some statements before completing a short writing activity.

Use these pre-reading discussion prompts to prepare students for reading Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

When in Rome, what should visitors do? Let your students become a tour guide to Rome, the historic city in Italy, with this travel brochure activity.

These thinking stems will set the stage for a rich reading environment and spark thoughtful reading responses.

This resource helps ELs make strong connections with a simple fiction text. After reading a short story, students will think about how they can connect with the text and use sentence frames to explain their thinking.

After finishing R.J. Palacio’s novel Wonder, encourage students to create their own precepts with this creative extension activity!

Invite your students to create a travel brochure about Mexico City and pull key facts from the informational text provided.

With a movie word search and fascinating info about early films, this set of reading and writing worksheets is sure to entertain your budding movie-lover!

Budding researchers will head Down Under to learn about Melbourne, Australia, in this engaging project.

Your students will be amazed to learn about different types of fungus in this nonfiction reading exercise!

Practice strategic reading and allow children to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and life.

This travel brochure activity summarizes the fascinating history behind the birthplace of the Renaissance.

What's the best way to get to know a city? Play tourist! In this activity, students create a travel brochure on the 2008 Olympic host city, Beijing.

Celebrate Halloween with a spooky reading exercise, where you'll learn all about werewolves! Read up on the history behind these legendary beasts.

If your child is reading a novel for school, encourage him to draw parallels to the real world in this fun news scavenger hunt.

Sink your teeth into some vampire history and lore with this playful Halloween worksheet!